This makes a huge difference, and makes a Human a very attractive choice at lower levels. Humans get to increase all Core Ability scores by 1 point from the start. A personal favorite of mine was a Medieval Private Detective, who spoke in 1950’s slang and used anachronisms to solve clues about adventures.

The Player's Handbook gives an excellent variety of ethnicities for Humans, and examples of names, cultures etc. Far from just the vanilla option, Humans are versatile and a valid choice. Humansīefore we get into the more fantastical races, I want to look at the basic Human race. Each race comes with skills, attributes and specialties that make them unique. Elves, Dwarves and Half-Orcs mingle, fight side by side and forge alliances with even stranger creatures. Race in the Forgotten Realms (where most modern D&D stories take place) is far more varied. Not to worry, I will discuss the Crow-men and Robots you can be in a later post.Ĭhoosing a race in D&D is, unlike many video games, not simply a matter of personalizing the color of your character’s skin. A few more have been released since, with some truly out of the box options now available, but for the time being, I will focus only the main ones. As a side note, I am only going to cover the first five of the nine Player's Handbook races today, and next time I will discuss the other four.

I realized that in order for the skills section to make sense, we need to discuss race and class first, so I put that one on the back burner for now. I assured you I would talk about skills this time around.

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